Language understanding and preferences when reporting symptoms for pediatric patients receiving cancer treatments and their guardians.

Purpose: The Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool (SSPedi) was developed to facilitate symptom assessment among pediatric patients receiving cancer treatments; limited translations are available. The objective was to describe, among non-English pediatric patients receiving cancer treatments and non-English guardians, the language in which they understood symptoms and their language preferences for SSPedi completion.

Methods: In this single-center study, we included patients receiving cancer treatments aged 8-18 years or guardians of patients 2-18 years with non-English first languages.